Cratylus
   Part
 1 Intro|           Homer, and the spurious dialectic which is applied to them;


Crito
   Part
 2 Intro|    dialogue is a perfect piece of dialectic, in which granting the ‘


Euthyphro
   Part
 3 Intro|        Through such subtleties of dialectic Socrates is working his


Gorgias
   Part
 4 Intro|    harmony or beauty and discord, dialectic and rhetoric or poetry,
 5 Intro|        any longer of the forms of dialectic, he loses himself in a sort
 6 Text |           called rhetoric than to dialectic.~POLUS: What makes you say


Laches
   Part
 7 Intro|           it evanesces before the dialectic of Socrates; and Nicias


Lysis
   Part
 8 Intro|    Menexenus returns, the serious dialectic begins. He is described


Meno
   Part
 9 Intro|           in fact; it is only the dialectic of the mind ‘talking to


Parmenides
   Part
10 Intro|      together in one the love and dialectic of the Phaedrus. We cannot
11 Intro|        you discipline yourself by dialectic while you are young, truth
12 Intro|          of idealism, and also of dialectic, or, in modern phraseology,
13 Intro|         as gained in the Socratic dialectic. He felt no incongruity
14 Intro|         him a want of practice in dialectic. He has observed this deficiency
15 Intro|         was something more in the dialectic of Zeno than in the mere
16 Intro|           to Socrates; nor is the dialectic here spoken of that ‘favourite
17 Intro|           parody, of the Zenonian dialectic, just as the speeches in
18 Intro|        his own but of the Eleatic dialectic, had he intended only to
19 Intro|       character with the Zenonian dialectic. Secondly, We may note,
20 Intro|     Theaetetus a similar negative dialectic is employed in the attempt
21 Intro|          the Zenonian or Megarian dialectic, which proceeded, not ‘by


Phaedrus
   Part
22 Intro|         men. They are effected by dialectic, and not by rhetoric, of
23 Intro|    described as madness; thirdly, dialectic or the art of composition
24 Intro|     rhetoric, which is based upon dialectic, and is neither the art
25 Intro|     higher rhetoric is based upon dialectic, and dialectic is a sort
26 Intro|         based upon dialectic, and dialectic is a sort of inspiration
27 Intro|          the unseen, answering to dialectic or the science of the ideas.
28 Intro|       dialectical principles. But dialectic is not rhetoric; nothing
29 Intro|       analysis, which is given by dialectic, but not by the rules of
30 Intro|           and to think. The names dialectic and rhetoric are passing
31 Intro|           define the royal art of dialectic as the power of dividing


Philebus
   Part
32 Intro|           does not appear; though dialectic may be thought to correspond
33 Intro|        originated in the restless dialectic of Zeno, who sought to prove
34 Intro|         cleared up by the help of dialectic.~To us the problem of the
35 Intro|           in the Republic, towers dialectic, which is the science of
36 Intro|   relation in which they stand to dialectic is obscure in the Republic,
37 Intro|        attain truth by the aid of dialectic; such at least we naturally
38 Intro|       nous or mind is assigned to dialectic. (2) It is remarkable (see
39 Intro|          this does not prove that dialectic is not the purest and most
40 Intro|    difference between eristic and dialectic. And the right way of proceeding
41 Intro|          of every rational man is dialectic, or the science of being,
42 Intro|           am not maintaining that dialectic is the greatest or usefullest,
43 Intro|          in the highest degree by dialectic. And do not let us appeal
44 Intro|  philosophy; the natural claim of dialectic to be the Queen of the Sciences
45 Intro|     disappearance of the Platonic dialectic, which in the Aristotelian
46 Text |           of disputation and true dialectic.~PROTARCHUS: I think that
47 Text |    SOCRATES: And yet, Protarchus, dialectic will refuse to acknowledge
48 Text |     PROTARCHUS: And pray, what is dialectic?~SOCRATES: Clearly the science


Protagoras
   Part
49 Intro|          assaults of the Socratic dialectic. No one chooses the evil
50 Intro|     because they are not based on dialectic; Hippias, who has previously
51 Intro|     character; he admits that the dialectic which has overthrown Protagoras


The Republic
   Book
52 6    | difficulty of the subject, I mean dialectic, take themselves off. In
53 6    |           attains by the power of dialectic, using the hypotheses not
54 6    |       being, which the science of dialectic contemplates, are clearer
55 7    |       last arrived at the hymn of dialectic. This is that strain which
56 7    |          sun himself. And so with dialectic; when a person starts on
57 7    |           progress which you call dialectic? ~True. ~But the release
58 7    |         what are the divisions of dialectic, and what are the paths
59 7    |      remind you that the power of dialectic alone can reveal this, and
60 7    |        Impossible, he said. ~Then dialectic, and dialectic alone, goes
61 7    |        said. ~Then dialectic, and dialectic alone, goes directly to
62 7    |           together will make it. ~Dialectic, then, as you will agree,
63 7    |       which are a preparation for dialectic, should be presented to
64 7    |         prove them by the help of dialectic, in order to learn which
65 7    |           great is the evil which dialectic has introduced? ~What evil?
66 7    |      taken in introducing them to dialectic. ~Certainly. ~There is a


The Second Alcibiades
   Part
67 Pre  |          ancients themselves. The dialectic is poor and weak. There


The Sophist
   Part
68 Intro|          employing their negative dialectic in the refutation of opponents.
69 Intro|         ludicrous names. Not that dialectic is a respecter of names
70 Intro|         the Platonic and Hegelian dialectic.~The unity of opposites
71 Intro|         superintending science of dialectic. This is the origin of Aristotle’
72 Intro|            This is the account of dialectic given by Plato in the Sixth
73 Intro|           outline of the Hegelian dialectic. No philosophy which is
74 Intro|           eternity, the spirit of dialectic is always moving onwards
75 Intro|          true facts.~The Hegelian dialectic may be also described as
76 Intro|       boasts that the movement of dialectic is at once necessary and
77 Text |      inanimate bodies, the art of dialectic is in no wise particular
78 Text |          STRANGER: And the art of dialectic would be attributed by you


The Statesman
   Part
79 Intro|          by the other interest of dialectic, which has begun to absorb
80 Intro|           or ‘Concerning Method.’ Dialectic, which in the earlier writings
81 Intro|           Phaedrus this aspect of dialectic is further sketched out,
82 Intro|    Besides the supreme science of dialectic, ‘which will forget us,
83 Intro|      contained weaving, politics, dialectic; and in connexion with the
84 Intro|          is seeking by the aid of dialectic only, to arrive at truth.
85 Intro|        exist between politics and dialectic. In both dialogues the Proteus


Theaetetus
   Part
86 Intro|          draw between Eristic and Dialectic, is really a criticism of
87 Intro|         through a spurious use of dialectic, the distinctions which
88 Intro|         art of midwifery, and all dialectic, is an enormous folly, if
89 Intro|         Nay, but the true hero of dialectic would have forbidden me
90 Intro|       expression, ‘full of impure dialectic’; or the lively images under
91 Intro|  discourse of reason; the hymn of dialectic, the science of relations,
92 Intro|             a shadow of a part of Dialectic or Metaphysic’ (Gorg.).~
93 Text |    midwifery and the whole art of dialectic is placed; for the attempt
94 Text |          from the abstractions of dialectic to geometry. Nevertheless,
95 Text |      between mere disputation and dialectic: the disputer may trip up
96 Text |          if I were a true hero of dialectic: and O that such an one
97 Text |           difficulty. The hero of dialectic will retort upon us:—‘O


Timaeus
   Part
98 Intro|       becoming aware that besides dialectic, mathematics, and the arts,
99 Intro|        developed by the growth of dialectic. He is never able to reconcile